How do you make sure your multiple sclerosis is winterized?

The rainy season has begun in Seattle. It’s dark when we wake, it’s wet, rainy and gray all day, and dark well before cocktail hour.

You try to get as much done outside before the rains set in. Most of the leaves, however, don’t fall from the trees before the rains begin. This makes yard clean-up that much more of an effort. I’d think about leaving them until spring, but picking up after 3 dogs becomes too much of a land mine hunt if the leaves aren’t raked up regularly.

Winter is setting in and I’m not ready for it; and sometimes I feel that way about multiple sclerosis.

Every time things are good for a while or we go into remission, it’s like an Indian Summer. We know that winter is eventually going to come but we revel in the warmth and smell and feel of the ever-longer, ever-lower rays of autumn light. We sometimes even fool ourselves into thinking that the winter might not come (or at least not be that bad).

I’m being a bit philosophical right now; probably too much.

Let’ talk about how you all get ready for winter’s approach. Do you give the place a deep clean before you hunker down? How about the gardens? Do you stock up on books and Netflix for those long, dark nights? Are there any winter hobbies you dust off? Holiday planning, perhaps…

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Trevis Gleason

Trevis L. Gleason is a food journalist and published author, an award-winning chef and culinary instructor who has taught at institutions such as Cornell University, New England Culinary Institute and...read more